About the photographer
Saïd Nuseibeh
An architectural and fine-art photographer bringing close visual attention to Islamic architecture, ornament, craft, and cultural memory.
In 1996, he published The Dome of the Rock with Rizzoli. His photography has been exhibited and reproduced in books on architecture and art history. Born in San Francisco and raised there and in Chattanooga, Tennessee, he studied at Birzeit University and earned a bachelor’s degree in English literature from Reed College.
A Thomas J. Watson Fellow and Fulbright Senior Scholar, Nuseibeh has concentrated much of his work on Arabia and its historical connections with Greece, Rome, Africa, and Persia. This archive extends that practice by making the knowledge attached to each photograph searchable and connected.